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created by <a href="https://community.jboss.org/people/sdwallace">Scott Wallace</a> in <i>EJB3</i> - <a href="https://community.jboss.org/message/788795#788795">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hello.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I would like to understand if it is possible to have a web tier be the remote EJB client and not have any jboss-ejb-client.properites that expose security.  I have this code:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>    private static Calculator lookupRemoteEJB() throws NamingException {</p><p>              Properties jndiProps = new Properties();</p><p>              jndiProps.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "org.jboss.naming.remote.client.InitialContextFactory");</p><p>              jndiProps.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL,"remote://localhost:4447");</p><p>              jndiProps.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, "webTier");</p><p>              jndiProps.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, "secretpassword");</p><p>              //create a context passing these properties</p><p>              Context context = new InitialContext(jndiProps);</p><p>    </p><p>        final String appName = "";</p><p>        final String moduleName = "EJBSandbox";</p><p>        final String distinctName = "";</p><p>        final String beanName = CalculatorBean.class.getSimpleName();</p><p>  </p><p>        final String viewClassName = Calculator.class.getName();</p><p>        System.out.println("Looking EJB via JNDI ");</p><p>        System.out.println(moduleName + "/" + distinctName + "/" + beanName + "!" + viewClassName);</p><p>  </p><p>        return (Calculator) context.lookup(moduleName  + "/" + beanName + "!" + viewClassName);</p><p>  }</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>It works provided I have this jboss-ejb-client.properties in my classpath:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>remote.connectionprovider.create.options.org.xnio.Options.SSL_ENABLED=false</p><p>remote.connections=default</p><p>remote.connection.default.host=127.0.0.1</p><p>remote.connection.default.port = 4447</p><p>remote.connection.default.connect.options.org.xnio.Options.SASL_POLICY_NOANONYMOUS=false</p><p>remote.connection.default.username=webTier</p><p>remote.connection.default.password=secretpassword</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>remote.connection.default.connect.options.org.xnio.Options.SASL_DISALLOWED_MECHANISMS=JBOSS-LOCAL-USER</p><p>remote.connection.default.connect.options.org.xnio.Options.SASL_POLICY_NOPLAINTEXT=false</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>However, if I remove the user name and password from the properties file, I get this exception:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>ERROR: JBREM000200: Remote connection failed: javax.security.sasl.SaslException: Authentication failed: all available authentication mechanisms failed</p><p>No EJB receiver available for handling [appName:,modulename:EJBSandbox,distinctname:] combination for invocation context org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientInvocationContext@1a3a9bba</p><p>java.lang.IllegalStateException: No EJB receiver available for handling [appName:,modulename:EJBSandbox,distinctname:] combination for invocation context org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientInvocationContext@1a3a9bba</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Is there a way to remove security information from the property file (or encrypt it minimally) so that this is not in clear text on a web server in the DMZ?  Any concrete examples?</p></div>
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